On Tue 15 Jun 2021 at 07:21:33 (+0300), Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 14 iun 21, 16:39:11, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote:
> > This is the first time I have to install a system using GPT with BIOS so > > I'm not sure how does it work with the BIOS boot partition. > > What is a "BIOS boot partition"? BIOS booting needs¹ a BIOSBoot partition on a GPT disk. It's not a BIOS bootpartition, because people use the term bootpartition to mean a partition/filesystem that's mounted at /boot. I have just posted what it's for, so I won't repeat here. > On BIOS systems grub must be installed in the MBR of the boot device, I think Felix disputed "should", let alone "must", just last Friday. > special partitions are needed for UEFI. UEFI booting needs to find an ESP somewhere. Which other special partitions are required? ¹ There are risky ways of avoiding it, like putting the core image in a filesystem and praying that it doesn't ever get moved. Cheers, David.
